The Outstanding Investigator Award (R35)

The Outstanding Investigator Award (R35)

09/26/2016 02:52 PM EDT

NCI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) NCI established the Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) in 2015, for principal investigators who have achieved significant research accomplishments. Featured in this video is Holly Prigerson, Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medicine, who is among the first group of 43 researchers to receive the award. The R35 encourages these outstanding investigators to take on high-risk and potentially high-reward research projects by providing stable funding for 7 years. For more information, please visitwww.cancer.gov/oia.